VMware ESXi, and Workstation contain a TOCTOU (Time-of-Check Time-of-Use) vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.
VMware vSphere/ESXi 8.0
Exploit
CVE-2025-22224
NVD
Refer to CVE-2025-22224 NVD advisory